What's Up

Am at work currently and it's lunch time... The office is peaceful, quiet and I really love time like this. :)

Last night was great, it had been so long since we went out together...
As my cousin is in town for the last week, we went for a KTV session. As we were walking out of the carpark, it really felt like the good old days when we were still young and Ang Mo Kio was like our weekly hang-out place. Every Sunday we would go to AMK Central because it was just a few minutes walk from my late Grandmother's place. The place where we spent our weekend childhood days, where we grew, laughed and played. Fond memories, tons of them. I guess we made each other's childhood extraordinary, special and unforgettable.

Anyway, ya, there was this kinda feeling last night and it was great. We sang our hearts out and had so much fun in that small little entertainment room with 2 microphones and a not-so-big-TV. It was my very first time to Kbox at AMK Central and I didn't quite like the facilities. I expected better standards, but well, I guess the company is all that matters. <3

We took lotsa pictures using a very old camera and everyone was commenting on my poor self-taken shots. O.o *roll eyes* (do I have to be a pro at it?) haha! I think you can find the least self-taken shots of myself comparing me with all the other girls. But wanting to do well in ANYTHING, haha, I gave myself a little 'intensive training' while waiting for my turn to sing. :P

Well, I can only upload the photos tonight when I get home on my laptop. :) So stay-tuned for my super beginner self-taken shots! :D

We sang so much and some really old songs that I will laugh at the thought of it. It was a really enjoyable bonding session. Hope the next one is not too far away.

Love you girls, my blood sisters.

On my Alvis baby:

Alvis baby is turning 27 months old in another 2 days' time. Time flies and sometimes I think not enough. There are so many things I want to do with him but I am always limited to the time after work and weekends. Wish weekends could be longer, a wish that may not come true, but no harm to keep wishing.

Am in the midst of sourcing for a school for Alvis baby. Have actually already registered him for one, Mommy still is having that 'un-sure' feeling but I guess the best thing to do is to let him go and try for himself. Nothing beats experiencing it on his own. I hope he will love going to school and learn as much as he can.

Alvis baby has always been speaking quite well, he picks up languages fast and remembers words and everything like he has some kind of a super brain. I'm not saying my kid here is a genius but I am always amazed by how he learns every single thing from me and put them to use without prompting and no pressure.

I always like to ask him "Alvis, what is this?" and I will say "Alvis, this is a ____". I feel these are proper sentence structure that I need to inculcate in him so that his foundation is well-laid. He has been trying to speak in sentences since very much younger and I am glad he has learnt to use "This is a ____" just like me since last week, when self-reading on his own. Sometimes he has forgotten to use "BECAUSE" with "WHY" but I think I can be a little too ambitious sometimes. I don't think I know how to speak like this when I was merely 2 years old.

Alvis baby can recognize alphabets A-Z and go through the whole chart reciting "A for Apple, B for Baby, C for Car, D for...." and so on all the way to Z unassisted. He is also self-feeding himself lately but Mommy still does proper lunch and dinner feeding sometimes to ensure that he eats his food warm. He loves to self-feed snacks, fruits, drinks, proud of him my precious boy.

Alvis baby can sing pretty well too. Out of all the nursery rhymes he listens in the car, I think he can remember the lyrics better than I do. If I sing wrongly, and he would even point me out! This little sweetheart talks every single minute and I sometimes wonder if he ever feels out of breath. Makes me miss his voice alot especially at work.

Alvis baby has also learnt to greet us in the morning with "Good Morning Mommy" and "Good Morning Daddy" each time he wakes up. I hope he can be generous with phrases like "I love you" though, without having me to tell him that first. He knows what that means and he knows when to use it but I guess being a boy, sometimes they may appear to love their cars and trains more than they're interested in us naggy mothers. haha!

The list goes on and on, how I really wish that I could record him 24/7 so that I can look back on every single detail in his little life now.. That will be so precious and so priceless...

2 things that I want to try out with him really badly is Play-Doh and LEGOs. I used to play Play-Doh when I was a little girl, I guess it'll make a good family activity. We could all sit down and play for hours. I hope he will be clean with the doughs and I hope he will enjoy it as much as he enjoys playing with his trains and cars. As for LEGOs, yes I know many little kiddos are already playing with them but because I didn't sense any interest from Alvis baby thus he has yet to own any LEGO set. Shall shop for his very first one very soon, and hope he will like it as much too.

New book addition: Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab because Alvis baby likes hermit crabs so much from the TV series: Mumuhug. :)

Will be back to update on my life again, till then, be blessed. :)